Sportsklubben Arild was a multi-sports club in

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, Norway. It had sections for

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orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a s ...

and

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including

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. The club was founded on 22 March 1919 by boys who belonged to the St. James Church congregation. With skiing, athletics and football being practised, football was dropped around 1925. Instead, race walking, hiking and orienteering were taken up. In 1936, Arild's athletics team competed in

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and got to know the sport of team handball. In 1937, representatives from SK Arild and Ullern SK played Norway's first handball match at

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and founded the

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. Arild won the first Norwegian championship title for men in 1939, when the sport was played outdoors, and followed up with outdoor titles in 1949, 1950 and 1951. When handball started the indoor championships that are now standard, Arild won the first men's title in 1958 and another in 1964. The club was relegated from the highest division in 1975, and later went defunct.

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